United States v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
568 F.2d 501 · 1978
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably United States v. Iron Shell (1980), United States v. Lincoln (1980)
40 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1 · 18 U.S.C. § 113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3401
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Patton v. United States · Baldwin v. New York · District of Columbia v. Clawans
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ssault by striking, beating, or wounding....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“embrace the common law meaning of that term.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[F]or the law cannot draw the line between different degrees of violence, and therefore totally prohibits the first and lowest stage of it: every man's person being sacred, and no other having a right to meddle with it, in any the slightest manner.” 3 W. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 120 (E. Christian ed. 1822), quoted in United States v. Stewart, 568 F.2d 501, 505 (6th Cir. 1978).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.